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[01] 2 arrests in bizarre hijacking of migrant-laden truck

[01] 2 arrests in bizarre hijacking of migrant-laden truck

The two foreign nationals are suspected of stopping and hijacking the truck at gunpoint near the west Attica industrial city of Aspropyrgos, hours after the migrant-laden vehicle was detected by law enforcement authorities on the Athens-Corinth national highway.

Some 50 illegal migrants, all from Third World countries, were hidden in the truck.

Police had set up a roadblock on after a tip-off that a truck carrying illegal migrants would be passing by the spot en route to Corinth.

The truck arrived at the designated point at about 11:20 p.m., but the driver, seeing the roadblock, abandoned the truck and ran off, disappearing. One of the police officers, accompanied by a colleague, took the wheel of the truck to drive it to the Aliens Bureau in downtown Athens, but when the truck reached Aspropyrgos it was cut off by two men in a car, who fired shots in the air, disarmed the officers and took their service guns. One of the gunmen drove off with the truck and the second gunman followed with a car.

The truck was also later located within Aspropyrgos municipality, with efforts concentrating on re-arresting the illegal migrants. (ANA-MPA)

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